Bath training for a mature bird?

[Melissa2013B]

Hi! Maybe you could try a steam bath. Just turn on the hot shower and let the room steam up. She might enjoy the warmth and humidity without the actual water touching her. You U2 will love this! Mine does. It will sorta get her use to hanging out in the bathroom with out having an intrusive experience. Just a thought.. good luck!~~

Oz, our umbrella cockatoo, loves to bathe every 4 days, like clockwork. We even put it on the calendar so we remember. He loves it so much, that he sometimes wants two baths ( when he gets all happy and dances up and down on the shower perch, he wants two! ) and then he even goes back in the cage and sometimes does an Irish dance in the water bowl after that, for sometimes 5 minutes. That's how we know he's Irish. We call it his River dancing.

[janetafloat]

Hahaha, that's cute! I'm with everyone else, I think you need to back off this one. Every bird is different.....my tiel really loves his spray baths but my Sennie appears to be frightened of the mister & I've bad no luck so far in interesting him in a dish of water. He does give himself a bath in his water bowl but only once every week to 2 weeks. I've been giving him a light spray every day but stopping when he flies off then treating him. At first I'd only get one squeeze of the spray in, and gradually am building up to more. I'd got up to 2 or 3 squeezes (some days better than others) though I've stopped at the moment as he's been poorly.

[Utoomom]

Hi! Maybe you could try a steam bath. Just turn on the hot shower and let the room steam up. She might enjoy the warmth and humidity without the actual water touching her. You U2 will love this! Mine does. It will sorta get her use to hanging out in the bathroom with out having an intrusive experience. Just a thought.. good luck!~~

Oz, our umbrella cockatoo, loves to bathe every 4 days, like clockwork. We even put it on the calendar so we remember. He loves it so much, that he sometimes wants two baths ( when he gets all happy and dances up and down on the shower perch, he wants two! ) and then he even goes back in the cage and sometimes does an Irish dance in the water bowl after that, for sometimes 5 minutes. That's how we know he's Irish. We call it his River dancing.

OZ is gorgeous!! look at that spread... ...its amazing cause I use the same thing for Elvis.. I got it at walmart & its a shower rod with pressure ends...works great! & E. adores his showers...Irish dance? LOL~~~~thats hilarious...but they are such funny characters..

[Melissa2013B]

Thanks!

If you'd like to see Oz fly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRTUOAY ... Q&index=13

as well as a bunch of other birdie stuff.

We fly him on average, a dozen times a night like this, usually 5-6 nights a week.

[Utoomom]

Thanks!

If you'd like to see Oz fly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRTUOAY ... Q&index=13

as well as a bunch of other birdie stuff.

We fly him on average, a dozen times a night like this, usually 5-6 nights a week.

Oh, cant wait to go home and see the video! dont have actual internet at work. I'm sooooo jeolous..LOL~~ Elvis came to me severely clipped ..its going to take some time for those beautiful wings to grow thoroughly...thanks for the link
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[friend2parrots]

have you tried placing a basin of shallow water in her cage? it might work to get her used to the idea of water, splashing, etc. ive got shallow water bowls in both my birds cages - my bourke is a desert bird so isn't naturally inclined to bathe that much - but after watching my GCC bathe twice a day in his bowl, over time my bourke began to imitate, and now bathes at least once every two or three days.

p.s. just make sure the water bowls are not under a perch or sitting area to prevent poop from landing in there

[Eric&Rebecca]

Yeah, but when it gets to be 6 months?
It's like she already is, and I don't get it.[/quote]

6 months isn't that long, especially for a rescue birdie, there may have been some water trauma. I agree try the steam bottle or just leave trays of shallow water around but ignore her and see if she does it by herself. It took us 4 years with one cockatiel to get him to bath but our female cockatiel sally did it always like clockwork.

Anotehr thing you can try is using large leaves from a non toxic plant, spray those with water and let her rub up against those to shower herself. Any large leafed vegetable or edible plant would be good for this providing its non toxic. Our tiel uses his birdie grass, which is Alflafa sprouts and some kind of cress and a mixture of things. We wet it and he rubs himself in it.